10:34 AM BST England scrum-half Dan Robson has been ruled out for three months with deep vein thrombosis, his club side Wasps said on Thursday. Robson scored his first international try in England’s 57-14 Six Nations win over Italy in March after making his Test debut against France in February. He missed England’s final match
Month: April 2019
11:17 AM ET NEW YORK — Claressa Shields is sitting at the bottom of the stairs of the Title Boxing Club in the Turtle Bay neighborhood of midtown Manhattan, an hour early for the event of which she is the star, waiting. The first one here other than the promoters of the event, she’s not
10:20 AM ET Pitt is naming part of its practice facility after Los Angeles Rams defensive tackle Aaron Donald following a seven-figure donation to the football program, the school announced Friday. The school said it will honor the donation by renaming the ground floor of the practice facility the Aaron Donald Football Performance Center. “It
10:17 AM ET ESPN News Services Forrest Gregg, who earned the nickname “Iron Man” for playing in a then-record 188 consecutive NFL games during his Hall of Fame career, died Friday at the age of 85, it was announced. Hall of Famer and @packers legend Forrest Gregg passed away today at the age of 85.
Israel Folau and Rugby Australia are headed for a bitter showdown with the embattled Wallabies superstar pledging to tackle the governing body head on in a desperate bid to save his career. Folau met RA boss Raelene Castle on Friday, with neither party backing down in a feud that threatened to turn ugly. Folau maintained
10:54 AM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” They’re killers. Two agents used the same word last week to describe this generation of baseball executives. It was meant as a compliment. Modern general managers are single-minded. Uncompromising. They spot weakness
9:19 AM BST Major League Rugby will add three teams and expand its regular season to 96 matches when it kicks off its third season in 2020, the North American league said on Thursday. As the Houston SaberCats and NOLA Gold prepare to kick-off Major League Rugby at Dyer Stadium Saturday, ESPN takes a closer
12:25 PM ET Greg WyshynskiESPN I don’t want to say that Joe Pavelski looked ghastly after scoring a goal with a puck off his face on Wednesday night against Vegas, but his mouth looked like he had been bobbing for crushed grapes in a barrel filled with bees. He lost “a few” teeth and his
8:54 AM ET SHANGHAI, China — The performance advantage between Mercedes and Ferrari swung massively between Australia and Bahrain, but the early signs are that it might level out in China. Despite Ferrari’s strong performance two weeks ago in Bahrain, reliability issues scuppered Charles Leclerc’s first shot at a race win, and despite fixes being
8:20 AM ET Phoenix police have closed their case into sexual abuse allegations against former University of Arizona and NBA player Mike Bibby. Phoenix police Sgt. Vince Lewis told the Arizona Republic on Thursday that an investigation “did not reveal probable cause to recommend charges against anyone in the case.” In February, Bibby was fired